News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
Pumping Gas—My My Times Have Changed
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Paul Gipe
My, my, times have changed since the last time I pumped gas. We’ve been driving electric for 12 years now. …
Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began
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External Source
The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis. The surge in wind and solar output is cutting the need for gas-fired generation, which has been nearly a third lower than last year and fell to record lows in both March and April 2026.
The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase
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Michael Barnard
The petroleum age is unlikely to end with one dramatic crash. It is more likely to enter a volatile decline, with each shock strengthening the case for electrification, and each wave of electrification weakening the future demand that once held the oil system together. The countries, cities, companies, and households that understand this will not wait for the last oil shock to pass. They will build around electricity because electricity is not just cleaner. It is more controllable.
LNG Shock, Coal Myths, & The Real Winners On The Grid
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Michael Barnard
Coal was not the global winner of the Hormuz shock. It was a regional emergency beneficiary in a few LNG-exposed markets. Renewables alone did not replace LNG everywhere either. But renewables plus batteries, backed by hydro, nuclear, interconnection, and demand flexibility where available, already replaced enough of LNG’s daily balancing role in several major markets to overturn the old assumption that a gas shock naturally belongs to coal. The real strategic winner was not a single fuel. It was the clean flexibility stack, and the countries building it fastest are the ones rewriting what energy security means.
The Inherent Evil of Fossil Fuels
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Jennifer Sensiba
Transitioning to clean energy isn’t just about cutting carbon emissions or saving the environment. It’s about starving a deeply unethical system that rewards the absolute worst human impulses. We can talk about numbers all day. There’s a possible 33.7 kWh per gallon of gasoline, but how many Iranian schoolchildren is a barrel of oil worth? How much is global security worth? If the worst case scenario happens and this thing goes nuclear, will we feel like it was a good price to pay for some oil companies to have a record quarter? There are some things in life that you really can’t put a number on.
Is it Time to Drive 55 & Conserve Gasoline Again to Deal with this “Fuck Up” Asks Economist Paul Krugman
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Paul Gipe
Nobel winning American economist Paul Krugman asked today on his podcast if it was time again to call for a …
